Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Seraphina’s POV 1

The drive back to Silver Moon Harbor felt like racing through a nightmare where the road kept stretching longer with each mile, no

matter how hard I pressed the accelerator. My hands gripped the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles had gone white, and I could taste copper in my mouth from where I’d bitten my lip hard enough to draw blood.

My phone had gone completely black after that final call with Ophelia, the screen cracked and unresponsive no matter how frantically I

pressed the power button. Now it was nothing but a useless piece of plastic and metal, cutting me off from any updates about Adrian’s

situation.

“Please,” I whispered to any god who might be listening, pressing the dead phone against my chest like a talisman. “Please let him be safe.

I’ll do anything. Just let my baby be okay.”

The moment I reached the school parking lot, I was out of the car and running toward the building on legs that felt like jelly. My high

heels clicked frantically against the asphalt as I raced toward the main entrance, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I thought

it might burst.

The front doors were locked-of course they were locked, school had ended hours ago. I pounded on the glass with both fists, not caring

that I probably looked like a madwoman, until a janitor finally appeared from somewhere in the depths of the building.

“Ma’am, school’s been closed for-”

“My son!” I gasped, pressing my face against the glass. “Someone took my son! I need to speak with his teacher, with anyone who was

here, please!”

The janitor’s expression softened as he took in my obvious distress. He unlocked the door and stepped aside to let me in. “What’s your boy’s name? I can try calling Mrs. Henderson at home.”

“Adrian Knight,” I said, my voice breaking on his name. “He’s in Mrs. Henderson’s class. Someone picked him up who wasn’t supposed to.”

Mrs. Henderson arrived within twenty minutes. She found me sitting in the hallway outside her classroom, my head in my hands as I

panic attacks

dear, what’s

at her through eyes that felt swollen from crying. “Someone took Adrian. You let someone take

was his aunt. She had identification-her

and had

to ask, though I

maybe late twenties? Well-dressed, very polite. She seemed to know details about you and Adrian…” Mrs. Henderson trailed off, guilt flooding her features as understanding dawned. “Oh God. Oh, Seraphina, I’m so

course it

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nearby with guilt written across her kind face. “I need to

remove my

Henderson’s phone.

I dialed Valerie’s number from memory.

empty

on the second

or pleasantries. “Valerie, I

sister dear!” Valerie’s voice bubbled through the speaker with sickening cheerfulness, like she

instead of committing kidnapping. “My, my, you sound

Is. My. Son.” Each word came out

Probably.” Her laugh was light and musical. “I really couldn’t say

to grip the edge of a nearby desk to keep from collapsing as the implications of her words hit me like physical

Valerie, he’s four years old! Where did you

he’ll turn up eventually. Children usually do,

anyway.”

voice carrying every ounce of maternal fury I possessed. “I will tear your

bleed to death if

hasn’t improved your temper at all.” Valerie’s voice was positively dripping with false

you where I left the little darling. For a price, of

you want?” The words tasted

of course. Harold is quite generous-he’s even willing to raise

stronger with each word. “I’m not marrying

show up at the

little Adrian might have a very lonely night in the